Casting for African-American women (adults & teens)

NOTE: This is not a musical. Masks are required at audition. Further virus protocols will be determined by the status of the virus.

AVAILABLE ROLES:

• Helen Richards - widowed veteran of Montgomery bus boycott

• Zora Evans - college student & aspiring journalist hoping to make her big break with a story about the funeral

• Mona Lisa Martin - struggling artist & hurricane Katrina survivor

• Keisha Cameron - pregnant high school student with standoffish attitude

• Gwen Johnson - disillusioned Iraq war veteran

PREPARE: You will be asked to do a cold reading from the script. Resumes and headshots are greatly appreciated, but not required.

ABOUT: On February 6, 2006, people began lining up at dawn outside Atlanta’s Ebenezer Baptist Church to pay their respects to the late Mrs. Coretta Scott King. The crowd wound down the street & around the corner of the old red brick building. People of all ages stood patiently for hours, waiting to say goodbye. When a cold rain began to fall at sunset, those who had thought to bring umbrellas shared them with those whose resolve was the only thing not dampened by the drizzle. At close to midnight, the crowd had dwindled to a determined few. The five fictional characters in this play are at the end of that long line of mourners.

PERFORMANCES: February 24-27 and March 3-6. Thursday - Saturday performances at 7:30 p.m., Sundays at 3:00 p.m. School Day Performance March 2, 9:00 a.m.